My mom kept a sand dollar in her jewelry box, along with a crab's leg and a dried sea horse. We had never seen the ocean but we listened to it inside a shell at the store every time we went to get goldfish food. Is it any wonder I ran away to see it for myself? #cnftweet

Join us online next Wednesday, 3/31, at 2 pm eastern time for Naming the World: Connecting the Personal to the Universal, a webinar with @BethKephart. creativenonfiction.org/products/namin…

Vaccine hesitation is real. I’m a neurosurgeon, but today, 2 patients in clinic asked me: “Doc, safe ba ‘yun?” (90% of his coworkers didn’t want it), and “Doc, OK ba ‘yung (vaccine name)?” Can’t news editors at least help us? This is irresponsible GMA News gmanetwork.com/news/news/regi…

Why would you need a headline like this? For added clicks? At what cost? This is disrespectful to the work that we do as health workers. Ang hirap hirap na nga ng science communication, dumadagdag pa kayo sa problema.

The nicotine gum burned my mouth and set my words on fire. Hypnosis worked though, and after about seven years I didn’t even have the urge when I saw someone light up. #cnftweet

The Spring 2021 issue of Assay is live! Check out the wonderful new scholarship and pedagogy we have for you--interviews with Sarah Minor and David Shields, new craft and criticism, and exciting new pedagogy work. We hope you love it as much as we do! assayjournal.com

Ubod is an online journal by the National Committee on Literary Arts (NCLA). They featured writers from different regions. Read on: ubod.ph. You might find CNF here. Happy reading this ECQ!

Join us online next Wednesday, 4/7, at 2 pm eastern time for The Poetics of Creative Nonfiction: Crafting Sentences that Pop, a webinar with Kateri Kosek. creativenonfiction.org/products/poeti…

How Do Writers Without Access to Books Develop a Craft? lithub.com/how-do-writers… Sulaiman Addonia via Literary Hub #WriteTips

Meet two more panelists joining us for the 9th Interdisciplinary Book Forum! Hon. Shirlyn Macasarte-Villanueva will share some insights from a governance and healthcare perspective, while Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ is our anthropology expert. See you next week, April 14, at 3pm!

Story of a 66-year-old researcher, an immigrant, who rarely got grants, never got her own lab, never earned more than $60K. For four decades, she kept working on mRNA—a path considered foolish. Her work is the basis for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. nytimes.com/2021/04/08/hea…

Sherma Benosa writes about the launch of my book, Abi Nako, Or So I Thought, and rediscovers her own truth-telling voice, affirming once again the “weave of women” writers that I have the honor of belonging to. My heart! 🙏🏽💜 #memoir Without Fear tribune.net.ph/index.php/2021…